{"id":1313,"date":"2020-11-02T13:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1313"},"modified":"2020-11-09T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T18:49:34","slug":"paul-sekler","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/speaker\/paul-sekler\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Stekler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paul Stekler\u00a0is a nationally recognized documentary filmmaker whose critically praised and award-winning work includes\u00a0<em>George Wallace: Settin&#8217; the Woods on Fire;\u00a0Last Man Standing: Politics, Texas Style;\u00a0Vote for Me: Politics in America<\/em>, a four-hour PBS special about grassroots electoral politics; two segments of the\u00a0Eyes on the Prize II\u00a0series on the history of civil rights;\u00a0Last Stand at Little Big Horn\u00a0(broadcast as part of PBS&#8217;s series The American Experience);\u00a0Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics\u00a0(broadcast on PBS&#8217;s P.O.V. series); Getting Back to Abnormal\u00a0(which aired on P.O.V. in 2014); and 2016\u2019s Postcards from the Great Divide, a web series about politics for <em>The Washington Post <\/em>and PBS Digital. Overall, his films have won two George Foster Peabody Awards, three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards, three national Emmy Awards, and a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Stekler, who was RTF Chair from 2010 to 2017, has a doctorate in Government from Harvard University, where his work focused on Southern politics. He previously was a political pollster in Louisiana, while teaching at Tulane, and was the founder of&nbsp;Center for Politics and Governance&nbsp;at UT\u2019s LBJ School of Public Affairs.&nbsp; His writing, on subjects like&nbsp;Hollywood blockbuster films,&nbsp;the&nbsp;greatest Texas documentaries,&nbsp;American politics&nbsp;and&nbsp;politics as depicted in documentary films&nbsp;has appeared in the&nbsp;<em>Texas Observer<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Texas Monthly<\/em>, the International Documentary Association\u2019s magazine, among other places, and in the book, \u201cKilling Custer,&#8221; co-written with the late Native American novelist&nbsp;James Welch. Stekler was named film school Mentor of the Year in 2014 by&nbsp;<em>Variety<\/em>&nbsp;Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1314,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-1313","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker","speaker_last_name":"Sekler","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1313\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}